Have It Your Gay

Contents:

• WH GAY BURGER, THE POP-UP MOL GOT AN FLUENCER TWIST
• ELIJAH DANIEL UNVEILS VIRTUAL FOOD BRAND ‘GAY BURGER,’ WH PROCEEDS BENEFG THE L.A. LGBT CENTER
• GAY BURGER
• GAY BURGER OPENS LA, SF, NYC BRACHILD OF ELIJAH DANIEL
• REVIEW: “GAY BURGER” VIRTUAL KCHEN OPENS SAN FRANCIS
• HAVE IT YOUR GAY AT BURGER KG
• MOVE OVER MR. BEAST, THERE'S A NEW — AND GAYER — BURGER CHA TOWN (EXCLUSIVE)

WH GAY BURGER, THE POP-UP MOL GOT AN FLUENCER TWIST

For a brief moment Febary, an unknown food brand lled Gay Burger — which featured dish wh nam like “Beef Me Up Stty” and “Love Me Daddy” — went viral on Twter. Gay Burger, a livery-only rtrant available on Uber Eats and DoorDash, cropped up largely out of nowhere, and didn’t have the backg of any large food pani: a YouTuber named Elijah Daniel, pl an entreprenr named Katia Ameri, had e up wh the ia a month earlier.

Buoyed by Daniel’s followg of half a ln fans and a seri of “be gay, eat burger” mem, the brand briefly took over Twter. #GayBurger. — Gay Burger (@gayburger) Febary 10, 2021.

Wh a few days, Gay Burger’s viral moment passed. Ghost kchens like Gay Burger — which have the spontaney and sense of humor of an ter meme — are rare. “Gay Burger was que a succs bee there was zero marketg spend, ” said Ameri.

ELIJAH DANIEL UNVEILS VIRTUAL FOOD BRAND ‘GAY BURGER,’ WH PROCEEDS BENEFG THE L.A. LGBT CENTER

Acrdg to Ameri, Daniel first floated the ia for Gay Burger January.

Wh a few weeks of the ial joke, Gay Burger was live three ci.

Wh the lnch of Gay Burger, Ameri said she was hopg to tt whether ghost kchens uld plsibly reprent an alternate revenue stream for YouTube and TikTok creators, many of whom are lookg for ways to moize their acunts outsi of jt ads or product placements. It isn’t hard to image why someone might buy om Gay Burger or MrBeast Burger a first time — “you have the niche on that pop-up, and people will orr and try jt bee ’s fun, ” she said.

GAY BURGER

YouTube prankster/activist Elijah Daniel has unveiled his latt stunt: Gay Burger, a virtual rtrant brand that will donate all proceeds to the Los Angel LGBT Center. “Gay Burger me along as a joke spired by MrBeast Burger as a creative new way to raise money and help out small rtrants, ” Daniel tells Tubefilter.

“It was origally a joke where I jt yelled, ‘I WANT A GAY BURGER CHAIN’ out of nowhere. It might’ve stayed a joke had Katia Ameri–a tech entreprenr who’s also Daniel’s iend and profsnal partner–not turned Gay Burger to a bona fi bs plan for his birthday last month.

“Obvly my ridiculo iends were down, so along wh @TreviMoran, @BryanaSalaz, and @st0rmryan, we had Gay Burger.

GAY BURGER OPENS LA, SF, NYC BRACHILD OF ELIJAH DANIEL

To brg Gay Burger to life, Daniel, Ameri, and team hooked up wh Silin Valley-based startup, which bills self as “a llective of 20+ seasoned founrs and unirn operators lnchg dtry disptg pani. ” Together, they lnched Gay Burger as a virtual brand—“virtual” meang don’t have any dited brick-and-mortar lotns of s own, but s menu n be adopted and served by any tablished kchen Los Angel, San Francis, and New York Cy. That menu clus cheekily named ems like Love Me Daddy (a “studly beef daddy patty” topped wh Amerin chee, pickl, whe onn, lettuce, and special hoe sce “gayoli”), No More Milk Daddy (“vegan daddy patty, ” sliced tomato, onn, pickl, lettuce), and I Like Chicks (ied chicken “daddy patty, ” gayoli, mtard, lettuce, pickl).

REVIEW: “GAY BURGER” VIRTUAL KCHEN OPENS SAN FRANCIS

Ctomers n also grab Gay Fri (“Fri but they’re gay, y’know? ”) or up the ante wh Extremely Gay Fri (your average gay i pl ramelized onns, chee, and ban). Like MrBeast Burger before , Gay Burger is available for livery only through Postmat, Uber Eats, and DoorDash.

You n see Gay Burger’s plete menu here. Are the two bottom buns gay men? “As a gay person, this is the funnit thg I have ever seen and I don’t thk I’ll ever stop lghg, ” unarnium said on Monday.

In a 2018 terview wh a lol Atlanta TV statn, Chick-fil-A chairman and former CEO Dan Cathy said he did not support gay marriage, but was not anti-gay. Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny. G: Gay.

HAVE IT YOUR GAY AT BURGER KG

Why gay or lbian and not “homosexual”? While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym.

As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns.

MOVE OVER MR. BEAST, THERE'S A NEW — AND GAYER — BURGER CHA TOWN (EXCLUSIVE)

People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn.

And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”. For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive. Instead, the terms gay and lbian are generally preferred.

Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men. The days, the term homosexual is typilly limed to medil ntexts, if ed at all. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist).